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Timothy Elnitiarta

3×3 one-handed · top 0.4% of 73,695 all-time · competing since August 2016 · 2016ELNI01

Timothy Elnitiarta has been competing for 10 years. His best event is the 3×3 one-handed: a personal-best single of 8.71, set at UCSD Winter 2024, puts him in the top 0.4% of the 73,695 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 58th in the United States. Until May 2015, no official 3×3 one-handed solve in the world had been that fast. Across 63 competitions since August 2016, he has put 1,245 official solves on the record across nine events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 13% around a typical one; 60% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds hold a tighter spread. His 3×3 best has come down from 27.09 in August 2016 to 8.36, a 69% improvement. Timothy has entered 63 competitions, more competitions than 99% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3 one-handed
best event — top 0.4% of 73,695 all-time
8.71
signature single · UCSD Winter 2024
1,245
official solves on the record
13%
solve-to-solve spread · wider than 60% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×3 one-handed8.7112.06
top 0.4%58 / 15,683
3×38.3610.00
top 3.4%1,954 / 59,724
2×23.084.04
top 15.2%5,943 / 40,951
Clock8.3710.22
top 16.9%1,290 / 8,927
3×3 Fewest Moves32 moves39.67
top 20.4%446 / 2,040
4×447.7651.33
top 21.8%3,310 / 19,072
3×3 blindfolded1:55.55—
top 32.0%659 / 2,092
5×52:19.962:39.77
top 61.0%5,241 / 9,401
Pyraminx13.6217.37
top 76.1%22,524 / 28,708

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Nisei Week 2016: 27.09Bay Area Speedcubin' 39 2022: 13.42San Diego's Final Cube-Down 2022: 12.00Bay Area Speedcubin' 41 2023: 12.86Berkeley Spring 2023: 13.20A Bruin Cube Day Spring 2023: 11.87Bay Area Speedcubin' 43 2023: 12.54Bay Area Speedcubin' 44 2023: 12.79Bay Area Speedcubin' 46 Live - SSF 2023: 11.78Westview Cubing Favorites 2023: 12.16UCSD For Hemophilia 2023: 12.11CubingUSA Western Championship 2023: 11.08UCSD Summer 2023: 11.58Berkeley Summer 2023: 11.07Bay Area Speedcubin' 51 Live - SSF 2023: 10.47Reno Fall 2023: 9.12SacCubing XV 2023: 9.89Bay Area Speedcubin' 52 - Belmont 2023: 10.17Davis Fall 2023: 9.70Bay Area Speedcubin' 54 Live - SSF 2023: 11.63Berkeley Fall 2023: 10.21UCSD Winter 2023: 8.84UCSD Winter 2024: 10.16Fullerton Winter 2024: 9.95Reno Spring 2024: 11.12Bay Area Speedcubin' 58 - Berkeley 2024: 10.21Berkeley Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 10.44Berkeley Spring 2024: 10.28Humble Cube Rumble Summer 2024: 10.27CubingUSA Western Championship 2024: 9.41Oregon Championship 2024: 10.80Bay Area Speedcubin' 65 - Berkeley 2024: 10.60Berkeley October Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 10.43Cool Down Berkeley 2024: 11.22Mahalo iā Maui 2024: 8.92Berkeley November Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 9.04Berkeley December Weekday Tricubealon 2024: 10.35Berkeley Pre-Cal Day Tricubealon 2025: 9.15Berkeley April Weekday Tricubealon 2025: 8.57SacMini 2025: 10.43Rubik's WCA World Championship 2025: 10.01Boise One-Handed Blitz 2025: 9.17Berkeley August Weekday 2025: 9.96Berkeley September Weekday 2025: 10.65Berkeley Fall 2025: 8.98Berkeley October Weekday 2025: 9.16Cool Down Berkeley 2025: 10.86Dublin California Open 2025: 10.83Berkeley December Weekday 2025: 9.24Super Duper San Diego 2026: 9.66Berkeley January Weekday 2026: 9.47Berkeley Favorites 2026: 9.76Berkeley March Weekday 2026: 8.36Berkeley Spring 2026: 8.41Berkeley May Weekday 2026: 8.91Temecula Valley Summer 2026: 9.468.3627.0920 Aug 201625 Jul 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 one-handed single — 151 people have one; it is 0.71 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.36 away.

Targets move as he improves.